AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WESTRALIAN ELECTIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn..—Copyright. Perth, March 8. The general election campaign is proceeding quietly. There are 142 candidates representing four parties—Nationalists, Primary Producers, National Labor and Official Labor. FENCING WIRE WORKERS. Sydney, March 9. Sixty-eight skilled ‘wire-working mechanics- from England have arrived under contract to Lysaght, Ltd., to form the nucleus of the staff at Port Waratah, embracing a pay roll of 500 men. SYDNEY MILK SUPPLY. Sydney, March 9. A conference between the representatives of the milk suppliers and the distributing companies has proved abortive and the prospect of an early settlement is remote. Suppliers have dwindled to a tenth of normal. MR. ANDREW FISHER’S RETURN. Fremantle, March 9. The Omar has arrived with Mr. Andrew Fisher on board. He was subsequently welcomed at the Trades Hall, where he stated that he re-affirmed the previous- utterance that he would not have his dead body found among the Coalition. He thought the workers Should not regard the 1 Labor champions as utter outcasts. The wisest men made mistakes and harboring feeling against individuals instead of principles did little good. A THREE MONTHS’ STRIKE. Melbourne, March 0. The men on strike at the Broken Hill Proprietary’s ironstone quarries at Iron Knob, South Australia, since December 15, have resumed work, thus enabling the resumption of smelting Newcastle shortly. The dispute was over one man. Over five thousand men will be ultimately Au«,-N.Z. C»bU Aisn.